Whitelaw Reid: “The Presidential idea was as baneful in Rebeldom, as it has proved to…”

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The Presidential idea was as baneful in Rebeldom, as it has proved to so many Northern statesmen, and Vance was destroyed.

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Whitelaw Reid

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Reid critiques the detrimental effects of political ambition on leaders during the Civil War.

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We must, then, be prepared with a policy for maintaining it ourselves.

It seems to me, then, idle to thresh over old straw when the grain is not only winnowed, but gone to the mill.

Give them order and justice, and trust to these to win them in other regards to our ways.

Our national experience has demonstrated that public order reposes most securely on the broad base of universal suffrage.

Whitelaw Reid: “The Presidential idea was as baneful in Rebeldom, as it has proved to so many Northern statesmen, and Vance was…”